Food Crops Value Chain- Addressing bottle-necks, markets and business opportunities : - PowerPoint Presentation

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Food Crops Value Chain- Addressing bottle-necks, markets and business opportunities : KGA Perspective

Presentation by Moses

Pelomo

(KGA Chairman) at the PIPSO Solomon Islands National Roundtable Workshop: Promoting Nutritious Food Systems in the Pacific Islands.

17-28 September 2017 at Honiara, Solomon Islands

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Outline of presentation

1. Introduction to

Kastom

Gaden

Association (KGA)

2. KGA approach to promoting of Food Security, Nutritious Food Systems and Livelihood

3. Key KGA Activities relating to Food Security and Livelihood from 1995-2016

4. New Approach 2017 and beyond

5. Key Challenges associated with Food Security and livelihood

6. Bottle-necks, markets and business opportunities

7. Way Forward

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KGA

WHO WE ARE!

KGA is a Solomon Islands Based Non-government organization (NGO). It provides training and assistance in community food security and sustainable livelihood development at grassroots level throughout Solomon Islands.

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1. Introduction to KGA

KGA is a national NGO established in 1995 by late

Joini

Tutua

Now has over 5,540 financial members spread throughout the nation- most are rural farmers

It currently has 13 affiliated community based organisationsBoard of Trustees and Management

Other National partners- MAL, MHMS, SINU, MEHRD-RTC AssociationRegional Partners- PIFON, POETcom, NARI (PNG), SPCSupport from Dev. Partners- DFAT, JICA, EU, UNDP, FAO, IFAD, CTA and others

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Our Local CBO Partners

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KGA Overall Philosophy

>>>HEALTHY SOIL >>>

>>>HEALTHY GARDENS >> >

>>> HEALTHY FOOD >>>

>>> HEALTHY PEOPLES >>

>> >HEALTHY NATION

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2. KGA Approach to promoting Food security and Livelihood

Encourage members and their families to use traditional knowledge, skills and innovations to establish sustainable gardening practices that will provide increased productivity

Encourage family members to consume more nutritious local

kaikai

Facilitate and increase capacity of rural farmers to link with markets so that surplus production from gardens earn sustain livelihood

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3. Key KGA Activities relating to Food Security and Livelihood from 1995-2016

Promoted the use of good traditional farming practices

Promote Organic farming practices

Adaptation of appropriate new organic farming practices

Promote conservation and planting of indigenous food crops (root crops, fruits & nuts and vegetables

Promote healthy families and village environments

Promote sharing of knowledge, skills and planting materials

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3. Key KGA Activities relating to Food Security and Livelihood from 1995-2016 (Cont.)

Promotes the consumption of nutritious local food

Organise

Food Diversity Fairs (

eg. Banana, Yam, Pana etc)

Establish bulking sites for local food cropsDistribution of imported seeds and exchange of local food crop planting materials

Established 13 Demonstration plots mainly on Guadalcanal after the Flash Flood of 2014Establish special demo plots for nutritious food crops in association with rural hospitals (Aitofi, Kirakira, Sasamungga, Lata & Munda)

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3. Key KGA Activities relating to Food Security and Livelihood from 1995-2016 (Cont.)

Conduct Training on organic and sustainable farming systems

Conduct Climate Change related mitigation and adaptation gardening system

Provide

POETcom

certification for Organic Certification based on PGS systemPromote “King Crops” system to venture into semi-commercialisation

Through affiliation with PIFON strengthen Farmer

Organisations (FO) and capacity building formation and managementEncourage Fos to establish marketing linkages through PGSEncourage and establish “Savings Clubs” and Financial Literacy trainingContinued advocacy in line with its overall aims

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4. New KGA Approach, 2017 and beyond

Continued advocacy but increased facilitation for members to increase their capacity to improve consumption of more nutritious local

kaikai

and income generation

Prioritise

efforts in fighting NCD and other nutritional disorders with collaborations with stakeholders

KGA to venture into income generation activities to sustain its own operationsMore diversified funding sources including SIG, Development Partners, private corporations

Strengthen partnership linkages and collaborations particularly with SIG and its agenciesEnter into J/V with potential members/partners where viable business opportunities are identifiedMore efforts to build the capacity of women, youth and others of special needs

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5.Key challenges associated with Food Security and Livelihood

Food Security

Low consumption of more nutritious local

kaikai

More nutritious crop varieties no longer planted or maintained

Local

kaikai more expensive at the urban markets compared to imported alternativesLack of awareness of the value of local kaikai

Rural people eat more imported foodFood Security (Cont.)Local kaikai

are more perishableLow value-adding for local kaikaiYoung people prefer imported foodYounger generation are not making gardens

Increase NCD and other malnutritionOver-cooked local kaikai –esp at schools and institutions

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5.Key challenges associated with Food Security and Livelihood (Cont.)

Livelihood (income-generation)

Local raw products very expensive

Unreliable supply

Consumers prefer imported substitute to local product

Lack Post-harvest knowledge

Lack of appropriate technology for processing /value-adding

Livelihood (income-generation)Lack of finance for capital investment and working capital

Packaging and labelling issuesFood safety issuesExport market access issuesMore intra competitive value chain palyers

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6. Bottle-necks, markets and business opportunities

Identifying marketable products/produce and market linkages

Un-reliability and consistent supply

Appropriate technologies for value-adding

Financial access and management

General inadequate infrastructure (transport, telecommunication, manufacturing, support services, utilities etc)

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6. Bottle-necks, markets and business opportunities (cont.)

Many informal enterprises

Weak trading/marketing partnership

Wantok

systemRural village producers are multi-opportunists and are not

specialised in any particular cropLittle collaborative efforts along the value-chain

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Way Forward (Food Security and Nutrition)

Continue promotion of Organic farming practices

Work with MHMS and Rural Hospitals on NCDs and Malnutrition

Work with MAL and MHMS to identify more nutritious food

Develop contemporary recipes that includes more local

kaikai

Encourage hospitality industry to use more local food in their recipesBuild capacity of boarding schools and institutions cooks to improve their cooking skills for more nutritious mealsPlant indigenous nuts and fruits in schools and institutions to supplement diet

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Way Forward (Food Security and Nutrition) (cont.)

Promote “SLOW FOOD” instead of “fast food”-

eg

. KGA Board has decreed that it will only be served “

Bone

bone Food” (roasted root-crops and fish and coconut drinks) for its Board meeting lunches!Continue to identify, collect, bulk and re-distribute good nutritious local kaikai

Research/analysis into unknown nutritional value of traditional food crops, nuts, fruits and greensPolicy for school canteens and food sales at schools not to have too much imported items

Educate young generation on the KGA vision of “Healthy soil > Healthy garden> Healthy Food > Healthy People > Healthy nation

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Way Forward (Livelihood)

Start small by adding value to food items that are readily available

Target local markets by conducting simple market research

Establish market linkages through PGS system

Contract Farming

Minimised processing to maintaining nutritional value of food (see examples in following slides)

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Potential simple village enterprises

Enterprise 1: Dried Nuts and Fruits

Enterprise 2: Root- Crop Flour

Enterprise 3: Value-added Root Crop Flour

Enterprise 4: Dried Fish

Enterprise 5: Solar Drying Technology

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Enterprise 1: Dried Nuts (i)-(Peanut and

Ngali

nuts)

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Enterprise 1: Dried Alite nuts (ii) (Beach and Bush) Cont.

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Enterprise 1: Dried and Fruits(iii)-(Cut-nut and Pawpaw) Cont.

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Enterprise 2: Root Crops Flours (i) drying and grinding

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Enterprise 2 :Root Crops Flours (various) Cont.

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Enterprise 3: Value added Root crop Flour

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Enterprise 4: Dried Fish

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Enterprise 5: Solar drier for Food

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Cont…….

Promote sustainable farming system – Alley cropping – Compost, mulching

etc

KING CROPPING

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TANGIO TUMAS- THANK YOU